The Senator (União Brasil-AP) has already occupied both sides of the discussion when it comes to obstruction of the legislature’s work by congressmen as a form of protest.
He, on Tuesday afternoon (5) to the action of pockets dissatisfied with the house arrest imposed on the former president () by the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court). Alcolumbre classified his colleagues’ attitude as “arbitrary” and alien to “democratic principles.”
Already in 2019, the clash that ended with Amapaense elected president of the counted table of the house being occupied by himself for seven hours. Alcolumbre faced jokes that he was using a “geriatric diaper” to endure so long sitting in the same place. The note was made by colleague Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO).
The alcohubre maneuver at the time was in the context of the dispute that put the Planalto Palace on opposite sides, especially then Bolsonaro government minister Onyx Lorenzoni, alcohubre’s main electoral cable, and (-al), who had mainly support from the most experienced senators of the house.
Alcolumbre and allies tried to pass over the Senate regiment and make an open vote for the choice, which practically eliminated Renan’s chances of success.
Senators stated that Alcolumbre could not command the session because it was one of the candidates. He argued that he was an interim president of the house for being the only member of the board of directors who kept his position and, thus, was entitled to preside over the work before the vote.
The Senate normative defines that the president of the session will leave the chair “whenever he wants to actively participate in the work of the session”. To avoid questions, in the period preceding the election, a deadline for application registration, alcohumbre had not made his name official for the dispute.
To avoid being barred in charge of the session, he before arriving at home. He feared that José Maranhão (MDB-AP), ally of Renan able to conduct the work, felt before him in the chair of the board.
A and ended up postponed. At one point, then -senator Kátia Abreu went to the table and took the paste of the work. The movement, and the session was compared to the São Paulo Carnival investigation of 2012, when a member of the Empire Casa Verde samba school broke into the judges’ table and stole and tore the calculation notes.
A decision of the Supreme Court Minister (STF) Dias Toffoli ordered the Senate to follow the regiment and perform the secret vote. Even so, Renan could not convert to votes the favoritism he said he had behind the scenes and decided to withdraw his candidacy. He left and the session accusing alcohubre of authoritarianism.
